Word: lester
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mostly avoids pastiche. The musicians don't try to impersonate their great historical counterparts, like Count Basie, Lester Young, Oran ("Hot Lips") Page and Mary Lou Williams, though in the film some correspondences are suggested. The spirit of the Kansas City scene is what they evoke, while remaining idiosyncratically and often exuberantly themselves...
...arguments that [Russell is] some kind of bigot," says community activist Lester P. Lee, who is black. "She agrees on many issues important to our community...
...seemed to provide a model of hard work, thrift and cohesion. Back in the early 1990s, both Japan and its competitors believed it had invented an economic version of the perpetual-motion machine. And that being the case, there was no reason for the miracle to end. M.I.T. economist Lester Thurow declared that the 21st century belonged to Japan. Sony co-founder Akio Morita and nationalist Shintaro Ishihara wrote a best seller arguing that Japan had an unbeatable lead in technology, thanks to its superior economic and social system...
...what they say is an ongoing attempt to liven up Harvard, Lester, Nanda and Thurow have played pranks on their friends throughout the school year. According to Lester, most of their jokes involve moving around the furniture of friends who are out of town...
...just like to scheme," Lester says. "I think that counts as extracurricular...